Zechariah 14:19

This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

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KJV

This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

ASV

This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

YLT

This is the punishment of the sin of Egypt, And the punishment of the sin of all the nations, That go not up to celebrate the feast of booths.

DBT

This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that go not up to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.

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This shall be the punishment of Egypt,.... Or "sin" (d), as in the original text: rightly is the word rendered "punishment", as it is by the Targum: and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles; which will be one and the same; they shall have no rain, or what answers to it; they shall all have a famine; or it will be different, Egypt shall be punished with a consumption of their flesh, and the other nations with want of rain: the former sense seems best. (d) חטאת "peccatum", V. L.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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(Vers. 18, 19.) And if the family of Egypt does not ascend and does not come, there will be no plague on them, but there will be a punishment by which the Lord will strike all the nations that do not ascend to celebrate the feast of Tabernacles. This will be the sin of Egypt, and this will be the sin of all the nations that do not ascend to celebrate the feast of Tabernacles.

Jerome· Commentary on Zechariah, 420patristic

This shall be the sin of Egypt and the sin of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles - For before the coming of the Saviour, good perhaps had been in part the excuse of the pagan, that they had been called by none. For no one had preached unto them.

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

God's providences concerning his church are here represented as strangely changing and strangely mixed. Sometimes the tide runs high and strong against them, but presently it turns, and comes to be in favour of them; and God has, for wise and holy ends, set the one over against the other. God here appears against Jerusalem; judgment begins at the house of God.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This shall be the punishment --margin, This shall be the sin of Egypt, and the sin of all nations, that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. The same word signifies both sin and the punishment of sin, so close and inseparable is the connexion between them (as Gen. iv. 7 ), and sin is often its own punishment.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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John 3:19
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

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Who & where

PlaceThe NileEgyptThe house of famine-refuge that becomes the house of bondage — the land Israel is planted in to await the exodus.

About this book

Zechariah's Vision of Four Chariots — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Zechariah — Contemporary of Haggai — but longer, stranger, and more explicitly Messianic. Eight night visions, a royal-priestly crown, Zion's king riding on a donkey, and the pierced one they shall look upon.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Zechariah son of Berechiah, son of Iddo (1:1) — priest and prophet of the return
Date: Began 520 BC, contemporary with Haggai; later oracles (ch. 9–14) may date to the later 5th c. BC

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John 3:19
And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
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- John 8:12
  Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- 2 Thessalonians 2:12
  in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.
- John 9:39–41
  Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
- Romans 2:8
  But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
- John 12:43
  For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

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